Improved commenting

I improved the commenting system of WordPress to allow simple markup with Textile commands. The comment box has now also a preview area and very short help text to aid the writer to get most of the system.

The whole thing is done using JavaScript Textile code found in the network — see source code for credits — and thus no extra conversions are needed in WordPress. I really don’t have the guts to install any WP plugins or hacks, as the system seems very unreliable to me. I’m not very impressed with the WP source code, but I have to stick with WP for the time being.

The comment error reporting is one thing that sucks hard in the basic WP implementation. It is not nice to show just a text error message and hope that user will go back and try to fix things.

I tried to get it fixed by including the index page, but unfortunately my trick did not yield to any conclusion. If somebody has a solution, please inform me.

And, if you are interested in the comment stuff, please use the comment box for opening the discussion…